English 095: Digital Composing


A Logo is Worth... About 75 Bucks (posted 30 September 2005)

Just in time for our work on Visual / Verbal projects, Wired Magazine created a fake company and hired six low-cost logo designers to give image to their name.

Wired told the designers that the name of the company is "GenVoyant," a "genetic-testing service that can see into your medical future" with the corporate slogan, "Know. Choose. Thrive."

Here is the first of the six attempts:

Logo-1.jpg

The other 5 are below. What do you think of these? How do they communicate (or fail to communicate) GenVoyant's purpose and services? Bonus points for anyone who can be as dead-on snarky as Wired.

Attempt No. 2:

Logo-2.jpg

Attempt No. 3:

Logo-3.jpg

Attempt No. 4:

Logo-4.jpg

Attempt No. 5:

Logo-5.jpg

Attempt No. 6:

Logo-6.jpg

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